Barre landfill owner gets OK to increase daily intake

The Board of Health unanimously approved on Tuesday a request from Barre Martone Landfill owner Waste Management to increase the daily trash intake at the Depot Road. facility from 375 tons to 510 tons. The panel also said yes to an increase in the weekly operating hours, from 53 to 56.5.

The company’s operating permit allows up to 93,600 tons of garbage each year; the yearly total does not change.

The Barre trash site is expected to be at capacity within three to four years, according to the firm’s most recent projections, Thomas C. Murray, senior district manager for Waste Management, said in an interview.

Asked about possible expansion plans at the Martone facility, he said: “We are leaving our options open. As of now, we are not actively pursuing it.” Mr. Murray did not elaborate.

Waste Management has paid the town more than $6 million in tipping fees over the past 10 years. The money is paid in exchange for Barre agreeing to host the trash operation.

An agreement between the parties that regulates the cash payments, negotiated in 2008, expires on June 30.

That contract provides monthly payments to the town using a formula that calculated uniform payments — based on the landfill capacity being completely used up by July 1, 2013, when the tipping fees stop.

But a drop in the amount of trash hauled into Barre landfill in recent years means the facility did not fill up as fast as previously projected. As a result, Waste Management, in effect, has pre-paid tipping fees to the town.

Although the garbage center will not be at capacity when the monthly cash payments to the town end next year, town residents will continue to have access to the transfer station because the landfill will remain open. Selectmen have appointed a landfill study committee to review the feasibility of the continuance of the transfer station should the landfill eventually close.

The Texas-based company, the nation’s largest refuse company, also operates Massachusetts landfills in Fitchburg, Chicopee and Granby.

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